Shu-Hong Yu studied chemistry in Hefei University of Technology and received BS in 1988. He got MS from Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry (SRICI) in 1991. He completed PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). From 1999 to 2001, he worked in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), as a Research Postdoctoral Fellow, working with Prof. Masahiro Yoshimura. He was awarded the AvH (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) Fellowship (2001-2002) in the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, working with Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti and Prof. Dr. Helmut Cölfen. He was appointed as a full professor in 2002 and the Cheung Kong Professorship in 2006 by the Ministry of Education in the Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013-), is acting as a General Secretary and a Council member of the International Solvothermal Hydrothermal Association (ISHA) (2010-). Currently, he is leading the Division of Nanomaterials
& Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical
Sciences at Microscale, USTC. He was appointed as Group Leader of the Partner Group of the Max Planck Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, USTC, from 2005 to 2009.

His recent awards include the 2nd Prize of National Natural Science Award awarded by Chinese Government (2010,
2016), the Roy-Somiya Medal of the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA) (2010), Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award (2010), Awardee of the Young Innovation Award of the Chinese Chemical Society & BASF (Germany) (2008), Career Achievement Award (USTC Alumni Foundation) (2007), Awardee of the Outstanding Youth of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for Academic Excellence (2007), Awardee of the Award for National Outstanding Youth in Science and Technology (2007), The 1st Prize of Natural Science Award of Anhui Province (2006), Awardee of the Centurial Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for Outstanding Research Performance (2006), First Research Prize of Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (2004) etc.